Written Quotes
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I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.
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The written word is everything.
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People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think.
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Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.
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Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.
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I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.
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I feel like part of the inequality is that there are few great roles written for older women, and I think part of that is, basically, people want to look at young women, whereas men are still considered attractive - or more attractive - when they get older.
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Definitely, I want to continue doing films and television, but my heart is in music. I've written for most of my life.
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Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.
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I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
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It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.
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The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.
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The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.
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Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
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Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
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I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.
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The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
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I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
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The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
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Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.
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When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.
